Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2212 mails)

[Erwin Lam <erwin.lam@xxxxxxx>]

On Friday 28 September 2007, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> All,
> 
> Having an issue I thought I knew how to address, but it is not
> working.  OpenSUSE 10.2 is booting into a maintenance mode due to a
> bad sector read on the hard disk.  I'm not worried about the data on
> the drive and so far it is just one bad sector.
> 
> So I would like to cause the drive to map the sector to one of its
> spares, then do a fsck on the partiion, then some kind of installation
> verification step, or if truly necessary I can reinstall.
> 
> I'm stuck on the first step.  I thought writing data to the sector
> would cause the drive to remap it, but that is not happening.
> 
> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null skip=312518818 count=1
> 
> Is very slow to return and triggers the bad sector error messages.
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda skip=312518818 count=1
> 
> returns very fast and and reports success, but redoing the above read
> again still returns errors.
> 
> Is there a different way to get that sector remapped?

Maybe you will find the link below useful.

http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/BadBlockHowTo.txt

Regards,
Erwin Lam

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